Rick Barnes knows the look. It’s the look Zakai Zeigler gets when he’s the player the Tennessee basketball coach expects him to be — even moreso, when Zeigler is the player he expects to be.

He spun in a layup to put Tennessee ahead by two with less than five minutes to play Tuesday at Rupp Arena. “We were right where we needed to be,” Vols coach Rick Barnes said. There was a ...

PARTICULARLY POTENT AT HOME • Under Rick Barnes, Tennessee is 22-8 (.733) versus AP top-25 teams at Food City Center, including 17-2 (.895) in its last 19 such games (since 1/30/21).